Chapter 4 - The Misuse of Powers

Thandar

It was a dark room with only a lamp as a source of light. There were two people inside the room a doctor and a young girl. The doctor spoke first in an amazed whisper “I’ve never seen anything like it you seem to be able to control shadows….. do you no how many people you could help with this ability?”
“Can you help me?” she said staring at the ground
“Well, I-I-I’ll try to help you but there’s no guarantee that it will work”
“No guarantee?” she replied still looking down
“Well no, but imagine how you could use your talent” he said slightly excited
“Talent?…..USE?” the girl said raising her voice “Do you really think this is a talent that I can USE when told like a slave?” she said lifting her head and stood up, now looking directly into his eyes. The spoilt girl glared at the doctor with frustration.
“There’s no need to get agitated, calm down and please sit” he indicated towards the chair
“I think I’ll get a second opinion” as she walked out she slid a pair of scissors off his desk and just as she was about to leave the room she threw the scissor directly at his shadow on the wall behind him. The man's pupils suddenly shrunk to the size of a grain of rice then a thin trickle of blood slid down his face, he fell to the ground dead.

At The Company

“Aida, we have an assignment for you” said Allison in a calm voice “You will capture a young lady by the name of Thandar.”
“Here’s her file and location.” said Henry passing Aida a folder.
“Where’s Dylan?” Allison said with a small frown.
“Don’t know, probably still hiding from Win.” replied Aida standing up “I’ll go tell him.”
“No one will be here when you get back, so be careful.” said Henry
“Everyone is gonna be out?”
“Yep”
Aida found Dylan on Level 3 looking inside an empty cell “Did they release her?” he said
“No, you idiot! She’s invisible, remember!”
“Oh.”

Somewhere in the Company

“Do you think it’s safe sending Tommy and Win after Thinzar and having everyone on assignments at the same time?” Henry asked Allison
“Yes because Thinzar still hasn’t got complete control of her powers yet and we don’t have enough time to spread these assignments out over a few days, it will all work out.”
“I hope so, any word from Damien yet?”
Before Allison could reply, Win and Tommy entered the room.
“Ah Win and Tommy. We need you to go and bring someone back for us.” said Henry
“Who?” asked Tommy
“Her name is Thinzar. Her power is persuasion so try not to look her in the eye, it helps” continued Allison handing over a file. “And we need to ask a favour”
“Sure” replied Win
“If she doesn’t come quietly, you’ll have to eliminate her” Tommy looked shocked at this idea but Win looked perfectly fine. “Why? What did she do?” Tommy questioned Allison with a look of horror on his face. “She killed many people, including an agent, Damien” Win and Tommy exit.
“Win took the news well. He was like a brother to her.” said Allison
“Are you ready to leave?” said Henry ignoring Allison
“Yes, Fong shouldn’t give us too much trouble.”

In search of finding Thandar

“Will you stop!” yelled Aida as Dylan burnt holes on the dashboard “You’ll break my concentration!”
“God, you’re a nervous driver” Dylan said stoping at once. A few minutes silence went by when Aida spoke in a distant tone “Has anyone noticed that you’re missing?”
“Well, my mum. She brings dinner over every Monday, and I guess my online- computer gaming partner Tim… I hope”
“What did you tell them?”
“That I was going on a vacation, what about you. Would anyone have noticed?”
“No.”

In search of finding Fong

“Well, we’re here” said Allison in a cheerful tone as she and Henry got outside the car.
“Why can’t these people hide in normal places, like a movie theatre or something” Henry mumbled to himself. As the pair walked towards a green-house Allison saw something
“There she is Henry” Allison said pointing at the green-house where an outline of a woman was visible. “I’ll go round the back” whispered Henry. Allison approached the door and opened it. As she entered she could hear Henry entering from behind the greenhouse.
“Hello Fong we have come to help you” the woman looked up. “I don’t want help” she said “Well, at least hear us out” said Henry
“I’m sorry but I’ve already had a job offer so NOOOOOO!” at this a deafening screech caused a huge sonic-boom shattering all the glass of the green-house. Henry created a barrier around himself but Allison was too far him to help. After the glass had settled Henry found that Allison only suffered a small cut on her cheek. “Where did she go?”
“Don’t know, check outside.”

At Thandar's Home

Aida and Dylan entered a large empty room; light from the afternoon sun was flaring through the window. “What do you think they meant by shadow manipulation?” Dylan said in a hushed voice, his hands a bright red colour.
“No idea” replied Aida “, maybe you should’ve asked?”
“Let me show you” Thandar said in a loud whisper, appeared out of a corner. Aida started running towards her, her body shaking. A bull taking her place a few metres from Thandar. Before she could deliver a deadly blow with her horns, Thandar grasped Aida’s shadow as if it were a solid object and motioned towards Dylan. The bull flew towards Dylan and slammed to the ground. Aida shifted back to herself, a bruise on her side from the landing.
Thandar grasped the shadow again and flinged it to the ceiling. At that moment Dylan realised that the only way to help Aida would be to change the positioning of the shadows. Changing the lighting in the room Thandar lost grip of Aida’s shadow.
Suddenly Dylan realised was that now his shadow was in her range. But Thandar was preoccupied with Aida. With one blow she slammed her foot to the ground on top of Aida’s shadow and there was a loud crack followed by an ear-piercing scream.
Dylan knew one of Aida’s bones had been broken and took his eyes of Thandar not realizing that Thandar was reached out for his shadow. She grabbed the shadow by the neck and started to constrict it. Suddenly everything went pitch-black, his eyes were wide open.

Then white light consumed the room. It reminded Dylan of how he feels when he releases a repulse - but 10 times stronger. While falling to the ground Dylan saw a shadow, a silhouette running away. With all the strength he could muster, he tried one more time to attack, a desperate attempt to stop her from escaping their clutches. But it was too late. All that was left was Aida’s screams for help. Dylan thought to himself ‘Did Thandar do this?’

In the middle of the desert

“She should be somewhere around here” said Tommy looking at a file as he and Win travelled down a dimly lit hallway.
“You wouldn’t be talking about me would you?” Thinzar said as she turned around the corner holding a pistol. Tommy and Win prepared themselves for a fight.
“I think they were” said a voice from behind them. Win and Tommy spun on the spot to see another woman who was unarmed.
“Tell us who you are!” said Thinzar, her voice echoed inside Win’s and Tommy’s head neither of them was looking directly at her eyes.
“NO!” yelled Win
“Their names are Tommy and Win, his power is to control the state of matter and hers is to create any objects with her mind” said the other woman coolly as if she just read their minds.
“How rude of me!” exclaimed the woman “I haven’t introduced myself. I’m Luisa, and you already know Thinzar” Thinzar gave a small wave “How about we sit down and have a talk”
“What do we do?” asked Tommy in a whisper.
“Attack when I say so...”
“Come on we won’t hurt you.” exclaimed Thinzar with a mocking smile.
“Now Tommy!” Win created two objects a katana and a knife, which she passed to Tommy. Tommy froze the knife and threw the knife at Thinzar who dodged with ease; Thinzar retaliated by firing three shots at Tommy who dissolved them.
Win charged at Luisa, she gave a small smirk as Win ran at her. Win’s mind was suddenly clouded. A voice was in her head, she could no longer hear Tommy. The voice was looking for something… memories flashed in her mind ; she was sitting with her dad, then she was chasing a boy on a bike, and she was talking to her best friend, ‘the fire man’ “Get out of my head!” Win screamed with her hands over her face
“Are you sure it’s your head I’m in?” replied the voice. Win knew it was her mind because all of these memories were hers, they flooded her mind. She was laughing at a neighbour in his underwear, she was crying at her father’s funeral. “STOP IT!”

Back at Thandar's home

Henry’s phone started to ring “Hello?” he said answering the phone
“It’s Dylan, Aida’s really hurt!”
“Are you back at the company?”
“Yes”
“Did Thandar get away?”
“Yes” Henry replied after a moment’s silence
“How badly is she hurt?” he asked in a disappointed tone
“Her leg is all messed-up, bones are sticking out”
“We’re on our way we’ll be about an hour” Henry hung up without another word. “What did he say?” asked Aida
“Said they’re on their way, be here in an hour, he sounded kinda angry”
“It’s not my fault a psycho-lady ripped my leg apart!” Dylan walked towards the door. “Where are you going?” asked Aida
“Out……not against the law is it? Dylan said closing the door behind him. Aida waited for a moment then pulled Henry’s laptop off his desk. She picked up her phone and dialled a number then said “What file did you want again?”

At the park

It was dawn and the sun was almost gone. Dylan kept wondering about what happened with Thandar as he was walking through a park when suddenly a hooded man appeared out of nowhere. They stared at each other for a moment when the man spoke. “I know who you are” in an almost casual voice.
“What did you say?”
“I know who you’re working for” at this Dylan shot beams directly at the hooded figure who raised his hands smoothly into the air and a large wall of rock blocked the attack, then he pushed his hands down and created a small shockwave. Dylan lost his balance he fell with his back towards the man, as Dylan got to his knees he lifted his head to see a huge rock spear millimetres from his face.
“Now I have your attention I wanted to have a word with you” the man said
“Who are you?”
“That’s not important right now, but you can call me Zeodust…… yours?”
Dylan thought for a moment “Nova”
“Well Nova, I know what kind of person you are you don’t seem to want to kill innocent people”
“It was an accident I didn’t mean to...
“Not that, I mean Henry and Allison……. How well do you trust them?” Dylan didn’t answer. “Cause I wouldn’t trust anyone who locked me up” Still no answer.
“I thought I would come and meet you myself”
“Are you going to kill me?”
“No, if you get in my way”
“What do you mean?”
“You’ll see, and watch your back”
“Is that a threat?”
“No, what did I just say about the Company? …see you soon”
“When?”
But there was no reply. Dylan slowly turned and got to his feet, no one was there.

By: Dylan